Word: socialism
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Driven by success, competition, and a desire to conquer the world, Harvard undergraduates tend to leave their social lives in the dustbin. What often emerges is a stilted, stifled, or unfulfilling campus social scene...
Driven by success, competition, and a desire to conquer the world, Harvard undergraduates tend to leave their social lives in the dustbin. What often emerges is a stilted, stifled, or unfulfilling campus social scene...
When I'm finally at home, snuggled in bed with my glass of water beside me, I'm glad I ventured into the wilds of the Harvard social scene. Not only was it fun, but I feel like I've been through the rough and back again. It gives me more to talk about over brunch than writing a sophomore paper, working on a chem problem set or sitting around watching a movie...
Some of those who would separate style andcontent are authors like Frederick Busch, whoclaims that Hemingway is "not interested inpeople, or social circumstances" and is then ableto praise Hemingway's work because he has confinedthe man's entire project to a stylistic endeavor.Then there are critics like Chinua Achebe, theNigerian author of Things Fall Apart, whois comfortable addressing Hemingway's stylisticcontributions to literature even while expressinghis disinterest in Hemingway's subject matter,because Achebe feels the content of the work hasno particular relevance to him as an African.Finally, there are those whose distaste forHemingway as a person forces them pastdisinterest...
...here, I think,that Hemingway's place in the canon of what isread and appreciated by contemporary authors isslipping most rapidly. As those who grew to famewith Hemingway could easily see and as can perhapsbe easily forgotten today, what is implied byHemingway's subtlety is a set of social andhumanistic concerns of real depth and emotivepower. Malcolm Cowley considers Hemingway'sgreatest achievement to be not the short stories,or A Farewell to Arms, but For Whom the BellTolls, the novel that at the Hemingway CentennialConference was looked down upon as a failed ifambitious attempt at broad social criticism, ananomaly...